{"id":1475,"date":"2018-09-24T22:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vnps.org\/johnclayton\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2020-07-20T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:39:19","slug":"purple-passionflower-august-2018-wildflower-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vnps.org\/johnclayton\/2018\/09\/24\/purple-passionflower-august-2018-wildflower-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Passionflower – August 2018 Wildflower of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Clayton Chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society<\/p>\n

by Helen Hamilton<\/p>\n

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Purple Passionflower\u00a0 (Passiflora incarnata)<\/em><\/p>\n

Unbelievably, this tropical-looking flower is native to Virginia, and is common here in the southern Coastal Plain. Intricate, 3-inch lavender flowers have a fringe of wavy, hair-like segments, banded with purple and on top the 5 sepals and petals.\u00a0 Three styles extend from the ovary in the center of the flower, a unique arrangement allowing only the largest bees to accomplish pollination. Leaves are toothed along the edges and 3-lobed.<\/p>\n

Purple Passionflower is a host plant for the Variegated Fritillary butterfly.\u00a0 Emerging early in the spring, female butterflies lay their eggs on the leaves of this plant, and may produce as many as 3 broods through the year.\u00a0 Caterpillars can be seen feeding on the leaves throughout the summer and into the fall. Yellow Passionflower (P. lutea<\/em>),<\/em> also native to Virginia, is not quite as showy, with smaller yellow flowers and a small black berry as fruit.<\/p>\n

Growing in fields, pine woods and fencerows widely across Virginia, the plant occurs in southeastern U.S. and Bermuda and west to Oklahoma and Texas. \u00a0Any soil will do, rich is preferred.\u00a0 Full sun produces more flowers, and the drainage can be moist to dry.\u00a0\u00a0 The plant has deep roots and will colonize to form groundcover.\u00a0 In a controlled garden or flower bed, this viny plant should be located in a container, sunk into the ground.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to share knowledge and record newly discovered species and created hybrids, Passiflora Society International has a website, annual meetings, and biannual newsletters.\u00a0 There are over 500 species of the genus Passiflora<\/em>, mostly vines, shrubs and trees of tropical America.\u00a0\u00a0 Native to South America and sold often in local nurseries, the leaves of non-native Blue Passionflower (P. caerulea<\/em>) have 5 lobes, not 3. Many other cultivars and tropical species are available online and in the nursery trade.<\/p>\n

The Passionflowers were discovered by a Roman Catholic friar in Mexico in the early 1600\u2019s. \u00a0\u00a0Symbolism to the Christian passion abounds. \u00a0\u00a0The combined sepals and petals could represent 10 apostles (omitting Peter who denied, and Judas who betrayed), the five anthers = the five wounds, the column of the ovary = the cross, the stamens = the hammers, the three stigmas = the three nails.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>However, American Indians already used the plant in folk medicine and as an aphrodisiac, attaching a different meaning to the plant\u2019s name.\u00a0 Chemists have found drugs in Passionflower used to combat insomnia and anxiety.\u00a0 A writer in southern Appalachia advises:\u00a0 \u201cAfter you have lived with someone for many years the little things they do start to bother you.\u00a0 So you take some passionflower leaves and make you a tea.\u00a0 Pretty soon you start to relax and the little things don\u2019t bother you so much and you get along fine.\u201d Passionflower tea and liquid extracts are widely available.<\/p>\n

Another name, Maypop, comes from the hollow yellow fruits that pop when crushed.<\/p>\n

The fruit is greenish-yellow, edible and makes a very good jelly.\u00a0 In 1612 Captain John<\/p>\n

Smith reported that in Virginia the Indians planted a wild fruit like a lemon, which begins to ripen in September.\u00a0 It is the official state wildflower of Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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For more information about native plants visit www.vnps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By Helen Hamilton, past-president of the John Clayton Chapter, VNPS<\/p>\n

Photo: <\/strong>Passionflower Vine (Passiflora incarnata) <\/em>taken by Helen Hamilton<\/p>\n

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